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Novel Bioreactor Systems and Their Applications

Bio/Technology volume 2, pages 447–453 (1984)Cite this article

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New sophisticated bioreactor designs with unique performance characteristics will play a vital role in the economic manufacture of useful biotechnological products from natural and genetically modified cell systems of microbial, mammalian and plant origin. In this paper we summarize the basic bioreactor design criteria, and review various novel bioreactor types and their applications.

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